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Just a layman, but as far as I understand it: Our current societal organization requires the climate to be within certain bounds, our current way of living, a
by polytely 3y ago
Just a layman, but as far as I understand it:
Our current societal organization requires the climate to be within certain
bounds, our current way of living, and the things we rely on to survive (plants, livestock) only work within certain temperature ranges with a certain stability/predicability.
adding Greenhouse gasses to atmophere -> traps more heat -> increases volatility of the system
Which causes more intense heatwaves, more intense colds, quicker changes in weather patterns, rare weather events becoming more common.
Which in turn ruins harvests, increase scarcity, creates migration waves, creates conflicts and societal instability which affects everything because of how interconnected our way of living is.
The poorest people are the first ones affected because it requires money to mitigate the effects, so you might say, so what because you yourself are in a rich place, but your rich economy requires on products produced in cheaper places.
There probably is a point where it becomes prohibitively expensive to continue our way of living, because the cheaper places stop working, so it's a good idea for rich countries to take expensive measures now to prevent everything falling apart in the future.
And personally I feel like it's also our moral obligation because the richest countries are responsible for a large amount of excess greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.